In 2006, the Instituto
Geografico Militar of Argentina (I.G.M.) after having examined our book
thoroughly, has declined permission to its importation as it has not got the
necessary pre-requisites as far as the controversy over the Falkland
Islands/Islas Malvinas and other boundary claims (Antarctic Peninsula, etc.)
are concerned. They demand the modification of a lot of charts and toponymy
and the erasure of the word Falkland from the whole book. As Italians these
territorial problems do not concern us, so when we wrote the book, we tried
to be as impartial as possible using the toponymy Islas Malvinas/Falkland
Islands each time we wrote about this archipelago, but that was not enough
for the I.G.M. Anyway, we are in very good company as the same problem of
blind bureaucracy has hit other publications which are much more prestigious
that ours.

Hoping in a better future, we put
down the address of the Argentine nautical bookstores who, difficulties
notwithstanding, try to commercialise our guide anyway!